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Henry S. Doyle (1867–1913) was a Christian minister and a prominent African American Populist born in Georgia and educated at Clarke University and Ohio Wesleyan. Doyle campaigned vigorously for the Populist Party (or People’s Party) Congressional candidate, Tom Watson, in Georgia in 1892, prompting an attempted lynching of Doyle. Two thousand white Populist supporters, however, protected both Doyle and Watson from the potential violence.

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